Welcome to a new instalment of the statistics posts.
As usual, these statistics refer to package description files. A package description is a .info file that describes the information that Fink needs in order to manage packages. Sometimes a package is split into multiple .info files (e.g. package-10.5.info and package-10.6.info). It is also possible that a single .info file defines multiple packages: split-offs, different Perl/Python/… versions, -mac/-x11, etc. I’ve also counted a .info file that is in both stable and unstable as a single file.
The (monthly) evolution of the number of package descriptions is shown inside parentheses/in italics.
Currently Fink has 5,385 (+56) .info files split into the following sections:
| Section | # of Pkgs |
|---|---|
| libs/perlmods | 681 (+8) |
| libs | 468 (+6) |
| sci | 433 (+7) |
| gnome | 360 (+0) |
| kde | 356 (+7) |
| utils | 342 (+2) |
| crypto | 327 (+1) |
| net | 323 (+4) |
| devel | 266 (+7) |
| graphics | 239 (+2) |
| text | 236 (+2) |
| games | 199 (+2) |
| kde/po | 186 (+0) |
| languages | 163 (+4) |
| sound | 157 (+0) |
| x11 | 137 (+0) |
| editors | 128 (+0) |
| libs/pythonmods | 81 (+0) |
| web | 75 (+3) |
| x11-wm | 61 (+0) |
| database | 55 (+0) |
| libs/rubymods | 48 (+0) |
| base | 42 (+0) |
| shells | 18 (+1) |
| x11-system | 4 (+0) |
The top 10 maintainers are
| Maintainer | # of Pkgs |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Reed | 842 (+1) |
| Jack Fink | 668 (+23) |
| Daniel Macks | 283 (+3) |
| The Gnome Core Team | 214 (+0) |
| Daniel Johnson | 174 (+11) |
| Todai Fink Team | 153 (+2) |
| Christian Schaffner | 122 (+0) |
| Ben Hines | 103 (+0) |
| Dave Morrison | 99 (+0) |
| Kurt Schwehr | 90 (+1) |
These 10 top maintainers are responsible for 2,748 (51%) package descriptions. Out of 286 (-2) maintainers, 122 (-2) (42%) of them maintain only one package description, and 211 (-1) (74%) of them maintain five or less package descriptions.
There are 591 (+10) (11%) unmaintained package descriptions.
